President Donald Trump has suspended all green card applications until December 31
Washington:
President Donald Trump has defended his decision to suspend the issuance of green cards until the end of the year, saying there is a need to give jobs to Americans.
By decree, Donald Trump in April suspended the issuance of green cards for 90 days. On Monday, it issued a proclamation extending the suspension until December 31, 2020.
“So we want to give jobs to the Americans right now. Right now we want the jobs to go to the Americans,” President Trump told reporters in San Luis, Arizona on Tuesday when asked by journalists to explain the order of suspension.
President Trump, who was seeking a new term in the White House in the November 3 presidential election, said on Monday that this step was essential to help millions of Americans who have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis in Canada. middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Donald Trump said that the overall unemployment rate in the country had almost quadrupled between February and May 2020 – producing some of the most extreme unemployment rates ever recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
While the unemployment rate of 13.3% in May reflects a marked drop from April, millions of Americans remain unemployed.
With the current suspension in effect, the wait time for Indian tech professionals to obtain legal permanent residence in the United States now spans decades.
Each year, the United States grants only 1,40,000 green cards to all job-rich immigrants, including their accompanying family members.
Currently, there is a backlog of almost 10 lakh foreign nationals and their family members who are legally resident in the United States. These candidates have been approved but have not yet received a green employment card.
The backlog is expected to increase each year as the number of foreign workers who self-sponsor or are sponsored by their US employers for green cards each year exceeds the annual allowance.
In addition to this numerical limit, a legal ceiling of 7% per country is applied to each preference category, which prevents the monopolization of green cards based on employment by foreign nationals from a single country.
“This country cap has created decades of waiting for nationals of large migrant-origin countries such as India and China,” according to a latest Congress report.
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